Terminal Emulation Software

Aspec · #1 December 28th, 2006, 09:46 AM

I'm looking for a program similar to Van Dyke's CRT which will allow me to access a remote system via telnet but allows me to load a Keymap file for that session.

Does anyone know of an application like this? Either commercial or GNU?

Thanks

nixgeek · #2 December 28th, 2006, 11:18 AM

Well, there are tons of GNU terminal emulators that you can use, especially since you have to compile them from source (just install the Developer Tools that come with your OS X installation discs). I've done this with centericq and it works fine.

As for native OS X applications, you can use something like ZTerm.

Aspec · #3 December 28th, 2006, 11:23 AM

Thanks for the reply. I looked at ZTerm but I don't see where you can load a keymap file for a specific session.

I'll have to tinker around with the developer tools.

nixgeek · #4 December 28th, 2006, 11:41 AM

You might also want to check out Pure Mac for some other term-emu apps.

MisterMe · #5 December 28th, 2006, 04:37 PM

There are two options that ship with every copy of MacOS X--the Terminal and Xterm (as part of your X11 installation).

A free opensource alternative is iTerm.

MacWise is not free, but there is no better terminal emulator available for MacOS 9 or MacOS X.

nixgeek · #6 December 29th, 2006, 06:46 PM

I guess I must have misunderstood. When I hear "terminal emulation", I think something like tn3270 emulation like ZTerm, minicom, or seyon...not so much the command shell window that's called "Terminal" in OS X.